After waiting for T-Com and Freenet, and then fighting a loose connector and crappy outlet, Nora has arrived in 2007 in style with an Internet connection.
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This wikipedia entry is a far sight better than what I remember a couple of my roommates hashing out on a whiteboard back in college… Sorry guys, but this tops your efforts.
My new modem sits proudly atop its servants who must now deal with the 16000/1024 goodness he doth bringeth
Q: The Internet connection at school is currently as slow as?
A: Yes…as slow as the title of this post.
I’m downloading at a whopping 11.2 KB/s from a normally dependable server with over 30% packet loss. Shizzo.
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Dan Kaminsky is probably one of my favorite speakers in the whole Blackhat, Defcon, CCC scene. I had seen an earlier iteration of this talk at Defcon 12 so the updates aren’t groundbreaking but are, nonetheless, impressive.
Why can’t college be taught like this? A barrage of information comes, […]
This is very cool since I just ordered one a couple of days ago. The “Fonera” is a free WIFI AP that they send you so long as you share your internet connection as a hotspot. Perhaps with this I can finally b teh ultim8 h@x0r? P3rh@p5… Thank you German hacker guy!
dns + spellchecking + phishing protection = opendns.com
I’m still not sure how their advertising revenue amounts to anything considering few will make their website a regular visit on their Internet rounds.
update: Ok, so I think I know how they get some of their cash. I typed in a quick search in the firefox address […]
Photoshop may very well be the industry standard tool but I think it fails miserably at doing several simple things well. I used to use Paint.NET on Windows. Now I’ve switched over to a Macbook and installed Photoshop thinking it’d be an upgrade of sorts. After 30 minutes of simply trying to make […]
I’ve finally managed to get a dedicated server! (ok, so not completely dedicated, I’m splitting it with another person but pffffft)
:-) < — me being quite happy
p.s. if you notice anything awry please leave me a comment…thanks!
Gentoo 2006.0 stage 1 build started on a VMware machine on top of a 2.8Ghz P4-D at 21:30 GMT+1 19.03.2006…
This is my first experience with build/installing Gentoo. I’m following this rather !verbose guide so wish me luck.
update 08:18: Bootstrapping went fine but then Gentoo decided to forget how to use my network. Assistance […]
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Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrds!!!
Ubuntu should really limit it’s Windows-ivity to user experience and leave the security problems on the developing room floor…
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So I just ran 3DMark 2006 on my workstation. I have nothing to compare this to so I’ll just post and hope that my six month old investment is still OK.
3DMark Score: 1664
- SM2.0 Score: 639
- GT1 - Return to Proxycon 5.183 fps
- GT2 - Firefly Forest 5.472 fps
- HDR/SM3.0 Score: 579
- […]
From an article on Slashdot covering an aspect of the WMF Windows exploit:
“…the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems (the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router) nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames).”
Why oh why would […]
